How do you store your digital photos?

[Sopdet]

We have 3 terrabyte portable hard drives the DH backs eveything up on... have not lost anything yet!

I've had two 1 terrabyte drives fail in the last two years so have scrapped backing them up on external drives

I use DVDs (more space), need to go through and re-organise them again & burn onto different dvds (ran out of re-writable ones), I also have a laptop that has a 500gig hard drive in it which has the most recent photos on there (using iPhoto - it is a MAC) most recent ones were synched from my phone while on holidays.

[emc2]

My camera is relatively old - about 5 years so the files are small, and my computer is about 11 or 12 years old.

I back up onto DVD's, and also use websites like Photobucket.

I try and post a copy of the DVD's to various relatives as an extra backup (hopefully!)

I have recently started using an EXIF file renamer, which renames all the photos with dates and times eg 2011-09-24 etc

[Olive]

we store on external hard drive that then lives in a fireproof safe!!!

[Jakabella]

I've had two 1 terrabyte drives fail in the last two years so have scrapped backing them up on external drives

I use DVDs (more space), need to go through and re-organise them again & burn onto different dvds (ran out of re-writable ones), I also have a laptop that has a 500gig hard drive in it which has the most recent photos on there (using iPhoto - it is a MAC) most recent ones were synched from my phone while on holidays.

EEEK! we used to back up on DVD's but when I went back to use a few of them they were scratched and we lots a lot of pics... Seems there's no easy answer!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I need to get all my pics off the comp, quite a few are on FB but they are not the greatest quality once you want to re-use or print them.
I am going to be putting them all on discs and then in a CD case, i really want to get back into printing some of the photo's we love aswell.
I was thinking about getting some cheap USB sticks but not 100% on how reliable they would be for storing for long periods of time.

[BlackCat]

Thanks guys, it looks like there is no one set way that is better than another, they all have their drawbacks!!